Pesto
#c1b23e
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c1b23e
RGB
193, 178, 62
OKLCh
75.5% 0.135 101.9°
CIELAB (D50)
72.3, -4.3, 58.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.4; on black, Lc -59.8. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#857800 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c1b23e
protanopia
#b4b43e · ΔE00 4.1
deuteranopia
#b7b73d · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#baba00 · ΔE00 5.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMulgore Mustard at ΔE00 1.293: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mulgore MustardΔE00 1.293 · #c2b332
- Warm OliveΔE00 1.44 · #c7b63c
- Lively LimeΔE00 1.519 · #beb334
- Hep GreenΔE00 1.544 · #c4b146
- Humorous GreenΔE00 2.076 · #c6b836
- Sharp LimeΔE00 2.271 · #c0ad28
- Herbal GreenΔE00 2.293 · #c9b23d
- New GreenΔE00 2.695 · #b5ac31
- Hey PestoΔE00 2.807 · #bea932
- CitronelleΔE00 2.841 · #b8af23
- Green FlavourΔE00 2.843 · #bbaa22
- Oil YellowΔE00 2.904 · #c2ab3f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.